WAOE President Emeritus Steve McCarty
(President from 1998 through July 2007)

Click on the triangle above to play the one-minute MPG video for the opening Keynote Address of the 1998 Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference where WAOE was conceived.

News: November 1998: Humanist (University of London) introduction to WAOE | 2000 Update / WAOE early 2001 news | What Online Education Is, with particular reference to Japan | WAOE cited as model of collaboration at a conference in China | 2001: WAOE collaborated with an online learning conference in Malaysia | From 2001: Java online Membership Certificate on demand and interactive world map of WAOE officers (Dr. Roberto Mueller, Brazil), Portuguese and Esperanto versions from August 2003 | Transcript of mid-2002 MOO event on the Future of Universities | February 2003: new officers and member networking plans | June 2003: new WAOE home page with Flash, an accessible site, Web forms to join WAOE and update membership details, password-protected member networking site /June 2003: revived newsletter WAOE Electronic Bulletin (WEB) - latest issue | results of 3 consecutive online meetings from June through July 2003: e-Democracy | September 2004: WAOE officers meet f2f for a presentation on WAOE at a UK conference | Spoken Libraries (2005). 2006: Moved from Portland State University to a private ISP. | July 2007: new Board of Directors: President: Nick Bowskill (UK), Vice-President: (Ms.) Begum Ibrahim (Malaysia), Executive Secretary: Eileen Dittmar (US), Treasurer: Mike Holmwood (Canada), and Membership Chair: Ramesh Sharma (India); also appointed officers: Chief Technical Officer (CTO): forthcoming, NPO Representative: James Potter, Cyber-Parliamentarian: Mike Warner, and President Emeritus: Steve McCarty.

History: April 1998: Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference Keynote Address | Mid-1998: Constitutional Convention held in a BBS | From 1998: WAOE WebBoard used for online meetings | 1998: WAOE Formative Documents / 1999: Membership Documents | Feb. 1999: Special Members' Meeting ballot ratified Bylaws and elected Directors | June 1999: Inaugural Members' Meeting | 1999: Pilot WAOE Online Educators' Course using Blackboard | 2000: Affiliations Policy | 2000-2001: MetaCollege LMS used for Online Educator Development Practicum | Annual Members' Meeting President's Report for 2000 (WAOE membership dues abolished), 2001 and 2002 | From April 2003 WAOE's ISP is Portland State University / Evolution of public discussion list waoe-views | Online Educator Development Committee preparing Online Teacher Certification course for members | 2003 Annual Members' Meeting / Bylaws amended to add CTO as 6th WAOE Director / Dr. Maggie McVay Lynch appointed CTO at July 2003 Board of Directors' Meeting | 2004 Annual Members' Meeting | Mentoring Project | 2005 Annual Members' Meeting | 2006Annual Members' Meeting | 2006 Annual Board of Directors' Meeting proceedings | 2007 Annual Board of Directors' Meeting in progress after the Annual Members' Meeting with a successful online election.

Culture: 1999: World Culture Festival / Multilingual WAOE Project | Child Research Net (Tokyo) collaboration on Summer Festivals in Japan | 2000: Greeting card for the 2000s in 20 languages with the Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Brazil / tcc2000 conference report on International/Multicultural Issues and New Technologies for Learning | 2001: WebCT for the Language Teacher (distance education issues in Japan) | 2002: PowerPoint presentation (view with MS IE browser): Overcoming Face-to-Face Dependence in Distance Education: Gender and Cultural Issues | August 2002 International Program for Africa hosted at WAOE / November 2002: Russian initiative | May 2003: WAOE Weblog (blog) Intercultural Literacy | By 2003: full WAOE Websites in Japanese,　Portuguese, Malay, Turkish, and Italian; discussion groups for India, Japanese, Spanish, French and Malay; see announcement / July 2003: added German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese and Turkish | WAOE blog Intercultural Literacy | WAOE-affiliated podcasting blogs by Nick (WAOE Community Audio Learning Project ) / Steve (Japancasting) / Mike Warner / Cliff Layton

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E-mail: mccarty@mail.goo.ne.jp